Brother, Can You Spare a Clarinet?

"Brother, Can You Spare a Clarinet?"
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Season/Series:	6
Number in season:	4B
Original Airdate:	October 15, 2001 January 10, 2002
Credits
Written by:	Dietrich Smith
Storyboard by:	Jeremy O'Neill Stéphanie Gignac
Episodes
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"Brother, Can You Spare a Clarinet?" is the second half of the fourth episode in the sixth season of Arthur.

Summary

Tryouts for the Young Person's Orchestra are coming to town, and everyone thinks Binky is a shoo-in. So why is he suddenly refusing to play his clarinet in band practice?

Plot

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Characters

Major

• Arthur Read
• Binky Barnes
• Francine Frensky
• Buster Baxter
• The Brain
• Muffy Crosswire
• Ms. Krasny
• Rattles
• Molly MacDonald

Minor

• Francis Haney
• Slink (doesn't speak)
• Sue Ellen Armstrong (doesn't speak)
• Fern Walters (doesn't speak)
• Mr. Barnes
• Mrs. Barnes (doesn't speak)
• George Lundgren

Cameo

• Jenna Morgan
• 3rd Grade Male Rat
• 3rd Grade Female Cat (Number 2)
• Maria Pappas
• Alex
• 3rd Grade Female Aardvark
• 3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 3)

Mentioned

• Ed Crosswire

Trivia

Cultural references

• The episode's title is a reference to the Great Depression-era song "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
• Bionic Bunny's weakness to special sound is similar to Superman's weakness to kryptonite in that they both lose their powers when exposed to it.
• Francine mentioned Seventy-Six Trombones.
• Binky tries to play the aria "La donna è mobile" from the opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi in his room on his broken clarinet.
• The band class plays the Mozart Clarinet Concerto.

Episode connections

• Bionic Bunny was watching The Love Ducks on the television in his apartment.

Errors

Slink coloring error

• At the end when Binky walks into the "sunset," Slink is colored like Molly.

Home Video

DVD:

• Arthur's Music Jamboree
• Arthur's Music Medley (DVD)

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